These magazines were printed aboard the USS South Dakota beginning in July, 1909. These booklets were
available by subscription "for the members of the crew and their friends" and
was intended as "a diary of events of the cruise." Included within are Navy
News, reports of training exercises, advice columns, reports of the ship's
athletic teams, reports from the ship's log, crew transfers and ratings,
cartoons, jokes, lists of ports, advertising, and much more.